Sunday, April 10, 2011

Adam and I awoke to a foreign feeling...a feeling so strange that we couldn’t quite place its origin.

Had we felt it before? Yes, but where? Certainly not in the cheerless gloom that shrouds our beautiful city this time of year.

And then it came to us: Spring!

Right now it is 75 degrees and sunny--a marvel if one considers that until today, it seemed that spring was a thing of the past. A memory caught in a crumpled photograph of my siblings and me in our Easter attire--holding baskets as big as our bodies, smiling grandly at the prospect of chocolate bunny ears after the obligation of church. My sisters and I are in little spring dresses and shiny patent leather sandals. In the background, daffodils trumpet their yellowy cheer while tulips lean lazily in their beds.

What the Heck I've Been Doing Lately

I've been teaching English Composition to spectacularly wonderful students, writing two books, a blog, and myriad grocery lists while dreaming of the day I'll reclaim my queen-like status to reign supreme over the glorious waters of Key West.

Explosive, by Cara Buchalter

Bohemian Dancing, Cara Buchalter

Single Lily With Red, by Georgia O'Keefe

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."-Chinese proverb

The Fancy Little Dress, Cara Buchalter

All kinds of lovely

Morning Coffee In St. Thomas

It was hard to leave...

"Where I Lived and What I Lived For"

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (66).